DBD::mysql - A Perl5 Database Interface to the MySQL database
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The driver installation is described in
INSTALL.html
In short: If you are using
ActivePerl/Windows:
1.) If you need to use an HTTP Proxy, set the environment
variable http_proxy, for example like this:
set http_proxy=http://myproxy.com:8080/
2.) The actual installation is as simple as
ppm install DBI
ppm install DBD::mysql
As of this writing, the above procedure won't work with
ActivePerl 5.8.0, because so far a PPM for DBD::mysql is
not available from the ActiveState server. I don't know
why. However, Randy Kobes has kindly donated a PPM package
to his own repository. You can use this as follows:
ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/DBD-mysql.ppd
Red Hat Linux 7.1 (you may prefer gnorpm)
rpm -i mysql mysql-devel mysql-server
rpm -i perl-DBI
rpm -i DBD-MySQL
rpm -i zlib-devel
SuSE Linux 7.2 (you may prefer yast)
rpm -i mysql mysql-client mysql-devel mysql-shared
rpm -i perl-DBI
rpm -i perl-Msql-Mysql-modules
Mandrake Linux 8.0 (any Mandrake specific installation tool?)
rpm -i MySQL MySQL-client MySQL-devel MySQL-shared
rpm -i perl-DBI
rpm -i perl-Mysql
rpm -i zlib-devel
Debian Linux
Install the packages
mysql-client mysql-server mysql-doc mysql-common
libdbi-perl lidbd-mysql-perl
No idea how one does install these under Debian, but I am
sure you know. :-)
For others, or in case of problems see INSTALL.html.
The drivers documentation can be obtained with
perldoc lib/DBD/mysql.pod
or
pod2html lib/DBD/mysql.pod >mysql.html
The driver is maintained by a mailing list:
msql-mysql-modules@lists.mysql.com